Recipe of the week: Fruity Muffins
Check out the many great recipes on the Livelighter website, such as this one for muffins. see here: https://livelighter.com.au/Recipe/148/fruity-muffins
Call in to Health Promotion at 60 McCrae Street, Swan Hill and pick up a FREE LiveLighter Recipe booklet, we have both Summer and Winter versions available. Alternatively you can download the booklets at the livelighter website: https://livelighter.com.au
One of our Dietitians made this recipe and this is her version!
olive or canola oil spray
1/2 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 apple, core removed and diced, skin left on
3/4 cup low-fat milk with 1 tsp of lemon juice
Preheat oven to 200ºC (180ºC fan forced).
Lightly spray muffin tins with oil or line with paper cases.
Sift flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl, returning the husk remaining in the sieve to the bowl.
Add sugar, oats, sultanas and apple and mix until well combined.
Place milk mixture, egg and mashed bananas in a bowl and mix with a fork.
Pour banana mixture into dry ingredients and gently fold together until just combined.
Spoon into prepared muffin pan.
Bake for 15 minutes for mini-muffins or 20 minutes for larger muffins until firm and a knife inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Allow to cool in tin for 5 minutes then turn onto a wire rack.
Hint
Muffins freeze well in snap-lock bags, but are best eaten on the day they are made.
Use currants, dried cranberries or chopped dried apricots instead of sultanas.
Replace apple with pear to vary the flavour.
